Tuesday, April 2

    Tuesday, April 2

 Phonemic Awareness 

Blend: shack, shell, them, that

 Segment: dish, shop, this, then
 Visual Drill
      Graphemes: sh, ck, ff, f, ll, l, ss, zz, z, s, u, e, i, o, a

Auditory Drill
 Phonemes: sh, k (c, k, ck), u, e, i, o, a, f, ff, l, ll, s, ss, z (s, z, zz)

Blending Drill  

shock to shack to lack to pull to lash to slash to smash to sash to hash to  

hush to hut to shut to shuck to ruck to rush to lush to sluch 

 New Concept 

   The grapheme TH spells /th/ (voiced)

KinderLiteracy: Dolphins

The kids will listen to Rabbits by Melissa Stewart to build an interest in the topic for this week: Dolphins
Literacy Jobs 
**New jobs await the children!

Math: Equal Sign 
**This lesson was originally planned for March 22 but because of the late start due to snow, we will do it today.

Today we move into the abstract symbol of the equal sign. As you know, the kids have worked hard in understanding combining of sets. Now it's time to apply those skills through a new means! To help launch today's lesson, we will read through Animals on Board by: Stuart Murphy and meet the character, Ellie the Equal.

For today, the kids will use the equal sign rather than the term 'makes' to complete the problem. 

4 + 2 = 6

 Music Today

Writer's Workshop: Choosing a Sentence Stem
Again, these are sentence starters such as: I like ____. or This is a ___.  Today, the focus of the lesson is to help the kids pick sentences starters they can read in full. (See photo below.)

~The playground is sloppy...If you haven't done so, please send boots and snow pants for recess!